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scotland, germany, sweden, belgium, england. one word mr. wojciekowski, bahhhhhh. that's all for us tonight, anderson cooper starts right now. with two days to go until the first presidential debate, president obama and mitt romney will have the chance to answer questions that they themselves have been somewhat reluctant to answer. we're going to run through some of the big ones keeping them honest. first, we have late polling. new cnn numbers that show the race tightening. president obama still leads 50% to 47%. the three-point gap is within the poll's margin of error. mr. obama got a four-point bounce to put him in the lead. the president's favorable rating meantime remains above the crucial 50% mark at 52%. mr. romney is close but still in negative territory at 49%. he enjoys an edge on handling the deficit and joblessness, but trails on virtually every other
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big issue, including medicare, taxes and foreign policy. keeping them honest, when it comes to some of those issues, both candidates have come up short either on specifics or credibility. issues like cutting taxes without ballooning the deficit or burdening the middle class. the romney campaign has been asked again and again for specifics. here's runningmate paul ryan just yesterday on fox news. >> there's been a traditional democrat and republican consensus lowering tax rates by broadening the tax base works. and you can -- >> i have to -- you haven't given me the math. >> well, i don't have -- it would take me too long to go through all of the math. >> chris wallace kept trying but came away empty-handed. he's not the only one. take a look. >> which of the deductions are you going to be willing to eliminate? which of the tax credits are you going to -- when are you going to be able to tell us that? >> we'll go through that process with congress. >> give me an example of a loophole that you will close. >> i can tell you that people at
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the high end, high income taxpayers, are going to have fewer deductions and exemptions. >> mitt romney and i based on our experience think the best way to do this is to show the framework, show the outlines of these plans and then to work with congress to do this. >> that's something congress and i will have to work out together. >> the devil's in the details, though. what are we talking about? the mortgage deduction? the charitable deduction? >> the devil's in the details. the angel is in the policy, which is creating more jobs. >> mitt romney, paul ryan avoiding specifics. we will see what happened to mr. romney when asked specifics wednesday night. president obama may get tough questions about how the white house has handled the aftermath of the libya killings. listen to senior campaign advisor david axelrod on "state of the union" with candy crowley. >> the president called it an act of terror the day after it happened but when you're the responsible party, when you're the administration, you have a responsibility to act on what you know and what the intelligence community believes. this is being thoroughly
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investigated. >> he's saying president obama as early as the morning after the attacks in benghazi identified the killings as an act of terror. in that rose garden speech that he's referring to, however, the president only mentions the word terror once, and it wasn't until the end of that speech. also, it comes after the president speaks in broad terms, mentioning 9/11 and the wars in iraq and afghanistan. you can decide for yourself if his one use of that word terror is directly defining what happened in benghazi. listen. >> as americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it. our country is only as strong as the character of our people, and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe. no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values
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that we stand for. today, we mourn four more americans who represent the very best of the united states of america. we will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act and make no mistake -- now, david axelrod and others in the administration are now saying that he was quick to label the benghazi killings an act of terror based on his wording there. keeping them honest, that was both the first and last time that he used that word in relation to this. even days later, no one in the administration even came close to that language. listen. >> it's important to know that there's an fbi investigation that has begun and will take some time to be completed. that will tell us with certainty what transpired but our current best assessment based on the information that we have at present is that in fact, what this began as was a spontaneous, not a premeditated response to what had transpired in cairo. in cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this
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very offensive video that was disseminated. >> the u.n. ambassador susan rice. two sundays ago, took another three days before the administration began acknowledging what many experts say should have been obvious. >> let me begin by asking you whether you would say that ambassador stevens and the three other americans died as a result of a terrorist attack. >> certainly on that particular question, i would say yes. they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy. >> two days later, secretary of state clinton made it even plainer. >> what happened in benghazi was a terrorist attack and we will not rest until we have tracked down and brought to justice the terrorists who murdered four americans. >> keeping them honest, if the white house wants credit for quickly labeling what happened in benghazi an act of terror, can't also claim credit for prudently not calling it terrorism for so many days. whatever you think, clearly these are two candidates with
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some big questions to face and perhaps, they will less than 48 hours from now. that debate, a lot to talk about for us. the polls, debates, big economic numbers coming out this week. joining us, ari fleischer, serving as an unpaid occasional communications adviser to the romney campaign. also, robert reich, former labor secretary in the clinton administration, economist and professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley. secretary rice, let me start with you on the terror front and the obama administration. do you buy david axelrod saying that president obama labeled it terror the next day? >> well, it didn't sound from that context as if he labeled it as terrorism the next day, anderson. but it does seem credible to me that the white house is sharing with the public what it knows when it knows. it's very difficult to get good information immediately and as this issue becomes clearer, i think the white house has made a credible effort to tell the americans what it, in fact, knows about it. >> ari fleischer, what about that?
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david axelrod is also saying look, an investigation, you have to be prudent, you're president of the united states, you can't jump to conclusions. >> i have a fair amount of sympathy. i stood on that podium at the white house in the case of attacks on our country. you have to wait until you have all the facts to speak. but in this case, i think there was a willful pattern in this administration of downplaying terrorist attacks against our country. it was done with the underwear bomber on the airplane. it was done with the times square bomber, and done in benghazi, attributing the violence to the video. that's where i fault the administration. i think it was a bungled response to what took place and only later after the intelligence officials made it very plain to them that they're on the wrong track, that the administration catch up on the right track. >> second reich -- >> if i could just say one thing before we go to the economy, i think it's much more dangerous in terms of public opinion to jump to conclusions. to say, for example, there are weapons of mass destruction in a country where it turns out there are not weapons of mass
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destruction, i think again, you want to be very careful before you cast blame and you label people terrorists. i think the administration has been enormously responsible. the easiest -- >> you also don't want to downplay it and say it was attributed to a video when that clearly wasn't the case and they were overtaken by facts. >> let's move on to the economic front. secretary reish, the obama campaign has been making some very specific claims about how mitt romney's tax plan would affect the middle class. the governor can fight back by offering evidence the claims aren't true. do you think they have done enough to actually offer specifics, and do you think he's going to have to do that at the debate? >> i think he's going to have to offer specifics at some time, anderson. i mean, look, there are not just magic asterisks in the romney/ryan program. there are complete empty sections of geography, complete deserts. we don't even know how those huge tax cuts, mostly for the very wealthy, are going to be paid for.
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there's no idea of which loopholes are going to be closed, how loopholes are going to be closed, whether loopholes are going to be closed, what in fact is a loophole? there's no there there. until there is a there there, the public is not going to feel that this plan is credible. >> ari, what about that? romney and ryan keep saying we believe we're going to work with congress and work out those details. >> here's how i look at it. number one, he's a candidate for office. when you look at the totality of his proposals, he says he can balance the budget in eight to ten years. the president had to offer a very specific budget. it never once comes into balance. now, as for those specifics on taxes, i go back to the last time we successfully had major tax reform which was in 1986 with ronald reagan as president. he didn't come out with all the specifics. he worked with the congress behind the scenes, and they achieved meaningful tax reform because they kept those discussions private, they didn't draw public lines in the sand and therefore, they emerged successful. successful pattern to follow, ronald reagan's. on the other hand, you had the
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debt limit talks in 2011 where president obama in the middle of talks never, until this day, has gotten specific. we don't know if he offered to raise the medicare retirement age. we don't know how much he said he would cut medicare and enact entitlement reform. so he did the opposite. he went into a serious negotiation not as a candidate but as the president and never got specific. it's one of the reasons we never got a big debt limit deal. so i think mitt romney actually is following the reagan pattern. the question is who when it comes to real negotiation with congress will follow through and get it done. i think mitt romney would be stronger at that. the president, if he could have done it, would have done it. >> secretary reich, you said -- >> let me -- with due respect, with due respect to mr. fleischer, the fact is when ronald reagan was running we didn't have the kind of budget deficit we have right now. it's very -- >> that's not the point. >> let me just finish, i may, finish this thought -- you cannot as a presidential candidate, preach big, big tax cuts, mostly to the wealthy at the same time you are adopting
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presumably a ryan budget plan that lops off huge programs that a lot of the middle class and the poor depend on, and say i don't know how i'm going to pay for it, those huge tax cuts. i don't know. i just don't know. we're going to leave it up to congress. that's the height of irresponsibility in a presidential campaign, where the budget deficit is critical. >> ari? >> i think if that was the case, why didn't the president come out with his proposal so we could ever get a balanced budget? the romney budget actually is specific to the point. we know it does come into balance. he did it, one, he's willing to block grant medicaid. he's been very specific about that. two, he said he will means test benefit programs for senior citizens who are wealthy. he's been specific about that. we don't hear any of that from the president. i think that's going to get fleshed out in the course of the debate. but the bigger point here is -- remember what you just said. >> finish up. >> when it was a real debate in 2011, we needed meaningful
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policy, the president was awol. he was still unable to offer any specifics when the nation needed it the most. >> secretary reich, your final thought? >> well, the white house has come up with a very specific plan. it does eventually balance the budget but there are specifics. there's specifics in terms of raising taxes on the rich, there's specifics in terms of program cuts, there's specifics in terms of timetables. look, it's not just me saying this. it's not just democrats saying this. independent policy analysts, the tax policy center, others, very, very respected in washington and elsewhere are saying that the problem with the romney plan is it doesn't add up. there's no mathematics that backs it. he's got to prepare -- he's -- romney has got to prepare wednesday night for a very succinct, clear statement of which loopholes and which tax avoidance schemes he is going to close and prevent. >> we'll see if this is one of the flash points on wednesday night. secretary reish, appreciate it. ari fleischer as well. let us know what you think.
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follow me on twitter right now. @andersoncooper. do you think they've given enough specifics tonight? a lot of buzz obviously whenever former mayor rudy giuliani, says what's on his mind. he talks about how to win a debate and strange things the campaigns try to lower the bar for their debate performance although it seems like governor christie over the weekend didn't quite get that message from the romney campaign. we'll tell you what he says, raising expectations for governor romney. [ male announcer ] at scottrade,
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in debate politics, they call it using your head, playing the expectations game. now, in a close race, it matters no matter how absurd it may seem. it also matters when a player conspicuously fails to play, like this weekend when romney supporter governor chris christie boldly predicted in so many words that romney would win by a knockout. let's talk about it tonight, as well as everything else that goes into winning a debate. former new york mayor and presidential candidate rudy giuliani joins me. so yesterday, governor christie kind of went against the romney campaign general message, kind of raised expectations saying he was going to turn the race upside down, it was going to be a barn burner. think that was a mistake? >> chris is his own man, he's got his own views. i think chris is right to the extent that it's a very important debate for -- more important debate for governor romney than it is for president obama. we know president obama. we either like him, don't like him or are in between. lot more people have to get to know governor romney so it's a more important debate. i think he has to be presidential. i think he has to convey the kind of person that people would
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be comfortable with as president. i tend to think we kind of score this as if it's a boxing match or basketball game. >> you know what it's like to debate mitt romney. i don't want to rehash any old wounds but i do want to play just some of the thing you guys got into and ask what he's like as a debater. >>overnor romney, was new york a sanctuary city? >> absolutely. called itself a sanctuary city. as a matter of fact, when the welfare reform act that president clinton brought forward said they were going to end the sanctuary policy of new york city, the mayor actually brought a suit to maintain its sanctuary city status. >> it's unfortunate, but mitt generally criticizes people in a situation in which he's had far the worst record. for example, in his case, there were six sanctuary cities. he did nothing about them. there was even a sanctuary mansion at his own home, illegal immigrants were being employed. not, not being turned in to anybody or by anyone.
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>> you're still wearing a red tie, by the way. different tie, though. >> hope so. my wife would be very upset if it was the same tie. >> not to debate that particular issue but what's he like as a debater? >> he's a good debater. i think 11 debates i did with him. he didn't lose any of them. a few of them he won. a couple he won really well. i don't remember him ever making a big mistake, the kind of mistake that can live after you which is the most important thing. and he's very smart. >> people say look, this is do or die for him. he's got to break through in a way, i don't know if you think that's true. you've said it's very important for him. is just having a good debate enough for him? >> um-hum. here's a different expectation level. the obama campaign has put millions of dollars into trying to make him a monster or some kind of demon, you know, rich man doesn't care about people. if he comes across as a relatively nice man, decent man which he is, i think that will help him a lot. and i think that to try to go too far in a debate is always a mistake.
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he's not going to win the election with this debate. what he can do is to start setting a whole new narrative for him in this debate. that's what he can expect to accomplish. in the president's case, the president is going to have to deal with the economic numbers, have to deal with the libya issue. >> as a debater how do you rate president obama? >> i think he's very good. i think both of them are playing the game. president obama was saying something the other day, i'm not really a good debater. gee -- >> they're both very, very smart guys. >> if you talk about the top 1%, intellect, these guys are in the top 1%. there's nothing to choose between them on intellect. there's a lot to choose between them on policy. i hope they get into a good discussion of policy because from my point of view i think romney would get the better of that but i'm not sure. we'll see. >> we looked at past debates. some folks seem to get into trouble when they start debating over the debate rules themselves. i want to play a quick montage of stuff. >> i have to let senator obama respond. and then senator edwards.
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go ahead and respond. >> wait -- >> you just spoke for two minutes. >> i did not say anything about ronald reagan, you said two things. >> you can dispute that but let me finish. you went on for two minutes. let me finish. >> i'm speaking. i'm speaking. i'm speaking. i'm speaking. you get 30 seconds. this is the way the rules work here, is that i get 60 seconds and then you get 30 seconds to respond, right? anderson? >> you say that you knew -- >> would you please wait? are you just going to keep talking? >> governor, take 30 seconds to respond. then i want to move the conversation on. >> much longer than 30 seconds. >> i hope not. >> that's a long answer. >> so does anyone win in that conversation? >> no one wins in that situation. the rules are the rules. you got to stick with them. >> people get upset but these are the rules everyone agrees to. >> they are a little strange, you know. >> they can manipulate where there's multiple people on a stage, then there's two leaders and they go back and forth and by debate rules you got to give each 30 seconds.
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>> how are you going to solve the deficit in two minutes? what does it reduce itself to? a bunch of sound bites. what i used to do is i would prepare and i would come up with the three or four points we had to make. now, you're not supposed to take notes in with you but the minute i got onstage, while you were all introducing us, i would write down the number one point, number two point, number three point, number four point and i always felt that i had accomplished what i had to accomplish in the debate if i got off maybe two or three of those points, if i made those points for my campaign. and i'm sure they've got a couple of things like that that they feel they have to get in. >> it's going to be interesting. mayor, thank you very much. appreciate it. well, wednesday's debate could be a game changer even if it's not, something else could shake up the race. the kind of late developments that make a voter rethink a candidate or president. they call it the october surprise. dana bash breaks it down starting in october of 1972. >> election year 1972, the raging unpopular war in vietnam
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consumed the bitter campaign battle between president nixon and george mcgovern. suddenly on october 26th, 12 days before the election, vietnam negotiator henry kissinger made a surprise declaration, believed to cement president nixon's front-runner status. >> we believe that peace is at hand. >> reporter: it was the first so-called october surprise, a late in the game campaign event with a significant impact on the election. >> in order to win re-election for nixon in 1972, they needed to end the vietnam war, and this was sort of the definitive statement. >> the most famous october surprise was in 1980, and the surprise was what did not happen. 52 u.s. hostages held in iran were not released before the election, despite president carter's efforts. instead, they were freed as soon as ronald reagan was inaugurated, setting off democratic suspicion never proven that reagan emissaries back channeled with iran to delay freeing the hostages and
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deny the troubled carter campaign a huge preelection boost. >> it fed into the whole dynamic of the 1980 race in the sense that jimmy carter was a stumbling, ineffective president. >> reporter: fast forward to 1992. president george h.w. bush was already on the ropes against bill clinton over a sluggish economy, when casper wineberger, former president ronald reagan's defense secretary, was implicated in the iran contra scandal shortly before election day. bad news that bush, who served as reagan's vice president, did not need. in 2004, a classic october surprise. osama bin laden released a video on october 29th, just four days before election day in a razor-thin race between president bush and john kerry. three years after 9/11, it served as a reminder of the terrorist threat and strategists in both parties believed helped president bush. more recently the term october
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surprise has come to mean a seismic event in the fall of an election year. though most have centered around foreign policy, others have been about the economy, like in 2008. when the economy imploded, john mccain's advisors say his campaign collapsed along with it and never recovered. historians say in order for an october surprise to have a real 11th hour impact, it has to feed into a narrative that already exists, whether it's carter's ineffectiveness or questions about mccain's credentials on the economy. >> it's not so much that suddenly eureka, this is so surprising, so amazing, but rather, people nod yes, this is where we thought things were going. >> it's possible we may have already seen this election year's october surprise. maybe it was how the candidates reacted to tragedy in libya and the broader unrest in the mideast or maybe it was mitt romney's now infamous 47% remarks, or perhaps one or both of the campaigns is holding damaging information about the other, or there will be an
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unforeseen event on the world stage. it's hard to say, since if we could guess, it would not be called an october surprise. dana bash, cnn, washington. >> we shall see what happens. up next, he was by the iranian president's side last week during his visit to the united nations. now, mahmoud ahmadinejad's personal photographer has decided to stay here in the united states. he's filing for asylum. [ male announcer ] now you can swipe... scroll... tap... pinch... and zoom... in your car. introducing the all-new cadillac xts with cue. ♪ don't worry.
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well, may be hard to believe but tomorrow will mark ten years since the first shots of a string of sniper attacks gripped the nation's capital. now the convicted shooter is speaking out about his crime. what he's now saying about it in his own words, ahead.
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welcome back. mahmoud ahmadinejad's speech at the united nations general assembly last week was likely his last. his term as president of iran ends this year. to document his visit to new york city he brought along his official photographer. well, now ahmadinejad is back home in iran, but his photographer never left new york. according to his attorney, he's filing for asylum here in the u.s. he just spoke with cnn. deborah feyerick is here with the interview. on what grounds is he trying to stay in the united states? >> well, anderson, now that he has defected, he simply can't go back. he's betrayed president ahmadinejad, he can no longer be trusted by the regime, certainly not by the ayatollahs who are running the country. they imprisoned a top presidential aide last week for making a relative innocuous comment about women's full-length dress covering. the iranian photographer's lawyers suggest that the reason he defected thursday is because he was asked to use his skills as a cameraman to do things for iran against the united states. take a listen to what paul dwyer
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had to say. >> i think when you have a lot of people on the ground who are fleeing and seeking asylum, that's not such an indication that the government is in trouble. but when the senior figures for the government start to defect, then that's a sign that there is some sort of institutional crumbling going on. there were things he was expected to do that he was not comfortable with doing. that he was quite opposed to. that the iranian government then perceives him as being their opponent. so you're perceived as being part of the enemy when you're not doing what it is that they want you to do. >> anderson, you can see that the way the lawyer couches the phrase is very, very careful but this does appear to be premeditated. the cameraman does have a wife and children. they left iran it appears
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sometime before thursday, when the photographer defected following the u.n. general assembly. his family is trying to come to the united states and the lawyer is now working on that, anderson. >> is he required to check in with anyone while he's waiting for his application to be processed? how does that work? >> really, he's not. even though he was part of this high-ranking delegation, his lawyer says he's not required to check in with any u.s. officials. that said, homeland security will have to do a very thorough background check on this man to make sure he's not a threat to the united states. also, there are a lot of diplomatic ramifications. his lawyer says they're trying to maintain a good relationship with the u.s. government to calm any concerns, but think about it. there have been other high-ranking iranian defections to other countries recently and it is a sign that the people there probably are getting nervous in this last year of ahmadinejad's tenure. >> interesting. we'll see what happens. thanks. the d.c. sniper is speaking out about the shooting spree that gripped the nation's capital and claimed ten lives. tomorrow marks a decade since the start of the attacks. now lee boyd malvo is speaking out about his crime. >> i was a monster.
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welcome back. in crime and punishment tonight, a murderer speaks out ten years after the crimes that put him in prison for life, crimes that made him, in his own words, a monster. tomorrow, the ten-year anniversary of the start of the sniper attacks that left ten people dead in the washington, d.c. area. lee boyd malvo was 17 years old at the time. he and john allen mohammed were convicted in the shootings. mohammed was executed in 2009. jurors gave malvo life in prison believing he was under mohammad's control. in a rare interview with the "washington post," malvo says he thinks if not for mohammad's manipulation, he could have made something of his life.
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>> you know, i was a monster. if -- if -- if you look up the definition, that's what a monster is. i was a ghoul. i was a thief. i stole people's lives. i did someone else's bidding just because they said so. that is the definition of a monster. >> malvo also said there's no explanation for what he and mohammad did and had this to say directly to the families of the people they murdered. >> i am sorry. i am sorry -- there's no way to express -- there's no way to express that. what am i going to tell them? i'm sorry i murdered your only child? i'm sorry i killed your sband? i'm sorry i murdered your wife? what do i tell the child who is waiting for his father to come home and dad never showed up?
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i mean, there's nothing -- >> a much different demeanor than the malvo of ten years ago. after his arrest he bragged, was defiant, even laughed about the shootings that left ten families devastated and terrified the entire d.c. area for 21 days. here's a look back. >> montgomery county has been traumatized by five killings in less than 16 hours. >> shot while mowing his lawn. >> right now, they don't know the motive. >> no relationship between the victim -- >> murderous spree. >> single shot. this time it took the life of a woman who was simply at a service station vacuuming her van. >> in that first 24 hour period where so many shootings occurred in montgomery county, this level of violence to us spoke to somebody who had snapped. we were waiting for what we called a hot confrontation. we were waiting for this person to actively engage the police or, you know, shoot himself and that didn't happen. there was nothing.
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we felt like the first couple days, we were chasing a ghost. >> word of another shooting, whether it is connected -- october 3rd, 2002, we had four shootings early in the morning, very short space of time from 7:40 or 7:41 to 9:58 was the last shooting, and then there was a break of several hours, then there was a shooting later that night. so you had five shootings in one day. that's when people really started to realize something is going on here. >> all hell breaks loose. it's like a war zone. i live in montgomery county, and you know, families are calling me, who is this, what's happening, do they have any leads? and i'm telling them no. the police say they don't have a clue. >> someone is so mean-spirited that they shot a child. now, all of our victims have been innocent, have been defenseless, but now we're stepping over the line because
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our children don't deserve this. >> i was out at police headquarters that morning when our desk called and told us they were hearing on the scanner that there had been another shooting. chief moose was out and about that morning in the parking lot doing live shots for the various network shows, and i immediately ran over to him and said chief, we understand there's been another shooting and a look crossed over his face. he pivoted and he went right back into police headquarters. >> apparently a tarot card left at the scene of the shooting monday in prince georges county, maryland, the shooting at the middle school and written on that tarot card, say law enforcement sources was dear policemen, i am god. >> we begin with what might be a new development in the string of sniper shootings in the washington, d.c. area. we underscore it might. the story is unfolding as we speak. the pictures now coming in from manassas, virginia, there was a shooting here a short time ago. one witness reported hearing a
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single shot as a man was pumping gas. october 9th, there was a man named dean harold myers who was shot and killed and someone reported seeing a white mini van leaving the scene, and that became sort of a red herring. police put that description out. a lot of reports poured in and of course, a white mini van is something, it's pretty common on the highways. >> we're getting word that around 9:30 a.m. eastern in fredericksburg, ver virginia, there was another shooting incident. this one at an exxon gas station. >> we knew there was a fascination also with the media by that time, so stepping up in front of the tv camera, and i don't think i'm the only person who felt this way, i really wondered whether, you know, that high-powered rifle was going to be trained on me or one of my colleagues. for me, this was nbc nightly news in those days.
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>> we begin with nbc's joe johns. joe? >> tom, it would be the boldest attack so far. >> and listening to tom brokaw read the lead-in to me, i thought to myself what's the first thing that happens, do you feel the bullet or hear the shot? >> we just received word of another shooting in the washington, d.c. area. >> in the parking lot of a home depot store. >> looking inside cars as they come by, everyone having to come to a stop and be questioned by the police. >> it wasn't so much that any of the killings stood out. it's sort of, for me, anyway, it was the violence and just the wanton randomness and i think to everybody in this community,
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that's sort of what struck the chord of fear. >> it was just people going about their business, their daily lives, and just, you know, wiped out. the home depot shooting was just chilling. this was a woman who worked at the fbi walking i believe with her husband on the parking lot. >> the picture we're looking at would seem to indicate the whole area is shut down. one of the things i think that captured so many people's attention about this, not just that it was a year after 9/11 and people didn't know if this was some sort of foreign terrorist or domestic terrorism or random street crime, but just that it was happening in real time and you didn't know when it was going to happen next, who the next person was going to get hit.
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>> as you can see, the bus, the forward most bus up there is the one where the shooting victim was standing, on the steps. we now know he was the driver of the bus when he was gunned down and by all indications, the authorities -- >> it was a call to a priest in ashburn, virginia, and it wasn't like a confession or protected communication. malvo basically identified himself by his nickname, which was sniper. and in order to shore up his credibility, made references to montgomery, alabama, you know, just gave us pieces that we didn't have prior to that phone call. >> my colleagues and i were hearing from law enforcement
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sources that it was a chevy caprice, old, tinted windows. one of my colleagues got the license plate numbers. i from my sources got the names of the people who they thought were inside. >> a federal arrest warrant has been issued for john allen mohammad, also known as john allen williams. >> i heard the report of the kind of car they were looking for and the two occupants and the license plate number, and i pulled in the rest area in frederick, maryland at the frederick county line and they were sitting there. >> the younger suspect, malvo, had been up all night the night before scouting the area in preparation for the last shooting of the bus driver, conrad johnson in montgomery county and hadn't had any sleep, so when they parked, mohammad went to sleep and said basically you're on watch, it's your job. so here's this 15-year-old, 16-year-old kid who hasn't slept in 24 hours and the first thing he does is fall asleep. >> two individuals were taken
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into custody there after a tip from a motorist. this arrest involved a warrant for john allen mohammad, also known as john allen williams and his 17-year-old stepson, john lee malvo. >> i tell you, i never saw so many policemen and people coming in in airplanes and stuff like that, getting down through the woods with the lights. it's something you'll never forget. >> it's been such a terrible, horrifying last three weeks. we can only hope this is the end of it. we don't know that yet. but this is good news today. >> ten years ago. hard to believe. california's become the first state to ban a controversial therapy aimed at turning gay kids straight. when will the ban take effect? we'll tell you ahead. ♪ home of the brave. ♪ it's where fear goes unwelcomed... ♪ and certain men... find a way to rise above.
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all right. time now for the "ridiculist." tonight, we're adding all the nonbelievers out there. in case you don't know any 12-year-old girls a believer is what the kids called the super fans of pop star justin bieber. you have the non-beliebers on the "ridiculist." even if you're not familiar with his music, you think music should be in quotation marks when it refers to what he does, you got to admit that young man has one heck of a work ethic. so much so, in fact, that even if he barfs onstage in the middle of a concert, he just keeps on going. ♪ >> yeah.
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he just leaned right over and hurled onstage right in the middle of a song but do you think a little bit of vomit can stop the tiny juggernaut that is justin bieber? no. he just kept on going. later that night, he tweeted this. quote, great show, getting better for tomorrow's show. love you. and milk was a bad choice, lol. by that, i guess he is referring to a scene from the movie "anchorman" which is i guess indeed laugh out loud funny or lol funny. >> it's so damn hot. milk was a bad choice. >> justin bieber has excellent taste in movies and upchucks and keeps on dancing. but when you think about, bubble gum pop stars often exhibit stoicism in the face of adversity. take demi lovato who contied performing after pulling out her own hair extension. ♪
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>> pop stars. the real heroes. they do what it takes to get the job done. always. well, almost always. i direct your attention to the ashlee simpson lip sync tragedy of 2004. ♪ >> oh, the humanity. that still hurts. that still hurts to watch. but you know what, these teen idols, they can all take a lesson from the one and only beyonce who knows how to turn an onstage mishap into pure awesomeness. ♪ >> the show must go on, people, and go on she does. neither rain nor snow